Eric Hamburg

Mr. Eric Hamburg is Founder & President at Industrial Renaissance, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer at Russell-Newman, Inc. He founded Industrial Renaissance in September 1996.
His expertise spans "buy and build" acquisition strategies, strategic business planning, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, profit improvement, business process reengineering, business startups, management information systems, supply chain management, business turnarounds, just-in-time manufacturing, and distribution / logistics.
He was an early pioneer and practitioner in industry of just-in-time and lean manufacturing when it was introduced into the U.S.
in the mid-1980's, and buy-build strategies when they became widespread in private equity in the mid-1990's.
Prior to founding Industrial Renaissance, Mr. Hamburg was a partner at Kidd, Kamm & Company, a middle-market leveraged buyout firm.
Before that, he was a senior executive at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he led the design and implementation of numerous business turnarounds and profit improvement initiatives across a wide variety of industries.
He served on the board of Vtrenz, Inc. Mr. Hamburg is a graduate of Cornell University, holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, with advanced studies in business and finance from its Graduate School of Management.